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January 23, 2025
Attendees
. Patrick Robb
. Aaron
. Paul Szczepanek
. Andre Muezerie

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Minutes

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General Announcements
* Aaron raised patch volume and public lab test capacity at tech board
yesterday, and this will be a discussion item at the next tech board
meeting on 02/05
   * CI testing should not be a replacement for developers testing their
code before submission to the mailing list. When people submit patches in
high volume with minimal testing, it can create a testing queue which
worsens the experience for everyone.
   * For the linux kernel project, developers are “rate limited” to 1
patchseries per 24 hours
      * If your patch causes a build failure, you should not resubmit for
some longer period (maybe a week)
   * There may be some opportunities to make developer testing easier
      * For instance, it may be possible to add a GHA cross compile to
arm64 which would allow developers to fork the repo, get cross compile
tests for their patches
* Andre has started working on DPDK at Microsoft and has joined the meeting
to get to know the CI processes
   * Patrick should check which build toolchains are in use (should be all
3 supported for windows) and email this to andre afterwards.

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CI Status

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UNH-IOL Community Lab
* The new ARM Grace-Grace server has shipped, patrick has the tracking #,
and it is expected to be delivered to UNH tomorrow January 24.
   * NICs will be moved over to the Grace server according to the migration
plan which was shared out to the governing board and tech board last year
* David helped add the “next-dts-for-main” branch to github, which mirrors
the next-dts branch from dpdk.org.
   * Still require a review and merge from Aaron for
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/ci/patch/20250116221112.19794-1-ccheng@iol.unh.edu/
which simply adds a mapping for this branch in the CI patch apply script
* New DTS in CI testing:
   * Patrick is adding configs for additional NICs - aiming to turn this on
early next week. Most likely to start with a few testsuites and then scale
up from there.
* Dashboard search feature has been added, allowing users to search for
test results by patchwork series id OR by patch name keywords
   * https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/
* Patrick to check with Adam about the depends-on series for the patchwork
project
   * Latest we heard was that there were no additional comments from the
maintainer and that it was expected to be merged in the current patchwork
release cycle
* Cody is adding a cross compile job for x86 32 bit

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Intel Lab
* None

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Github Actions
* Aaron has resurrected the Cirrus CI support patch - addressing some
comments and will submit a new patchseries version tomorrow or next week.
   * Zero day bot will connect with Cirrus server, which supports freebsd
and windows

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Loongarch Lab
* None

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DTS Improvements & Test Development
* Refactor configuration series:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=34355
   * Reviewed by Dean
   * Nick is reviewing now and will have all comments in by EOD
* Patrick left a few comments for the MTU testsuite, which Nick has
indicated he will incorporate into a v2 and submit by EOD
   * Should be possible to merge this “immediately” as the comments were
minimal, and Patrick has tested the V1 across multiple NICs

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Any other business
* Next Meeting Feb 6, 2025